Imaginative Quotes

268 Imaginative quotes by 234 unique authors

On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was… — Frank Lloyd Wright
A basic language-literacy of Nature is falling from us. And what is being lost along with this literacy is something perhaps even more valuable: a… — Robert Macfarlane
But what is now encompassed by the one word (“school”) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely… — Jonathan Kozol
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas, may find satisfaction… — Charles Horton Cooley
The religions of the world are the ejaculations of a few imaginative men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous. — Richard Dawkins
I think of feminism as a socially just and imaginative world. — Suheir Hammad
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry does not teach… — Harold Bloom
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol:… — Julian Barnes
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have… — Anthony Minghella
There's a fierce practicality and empiricism which the whole imaginative, lyrical aspect of poetry comes from. — David Whyte
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good… — Yehuda Amichai
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I… — Alan Lightman
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life. We can picture… — Dan Chaon
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix
The science fiction world has a lot of people doing seriously imaginative thinking. — Paul Krugman
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really nearly be true."… — Bill Nighy
What matters is the imaginative truth. — Edna O'Brien
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every talent--science, mathematics, energy,… — Julia Child
Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're… — Zoe Kazan
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner… — Edward Hopper
I found so-called great art too pompous, too stiff. What at this time was called minor art was freer, more imaginative, more open to all… — Jacques Lipchitz
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your… — Ben Okri
Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts. — John F. Carlson

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